Natasha Lyonne's Distorted Realities
Natasha Lyonne (co-creator, co-showrunner, star: Netflix’s Russian Doll) is obsessed with distorted realities. Her directorial debut film, Uncanny Valley, literalizes this obsession.
Synopsis:
A teenage girl loses her bearings when a massively popular augmented reality game takes over her parallel present-day world.
The film will be partially live-action and partially AI-generated, with the help of Jaron Lanier, who is credited as one of the founding fathers of virtual reality.
The film stars Lyonne and Brit Marling, who previously starred in FX’s A Murder at the End of the World, about a nefarious AI system.
The two also serve as co-writers with Zal Batmanglij (co-creator: A Murder at the End of the World).
What made Russian Doll so good is like Groundhog Day (The gold standard for time loop films) she focuses on the emotional repercussions of the surreal circumstances, which keeps it grounded and relatable as a code in for our daily lives, being repetitive.
The immense talent on Uncanny Valley are some of the best techno film thinkers in indie cinema working today. We look forward to this one.